Burnin' Rubber
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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This game is a non-official conversion of the arcade machine with the same name, which again is a copy of the machine "Bump'n'Jump". It mainly consists of a street scrolling downwards which contains obstacles and also gaps, over which the player has to jump with his car.

Of course there are also other vehicles on this street which try to push away the player, but this possibility is also open to the player, which gets a different number of points depending on the vehicle type. Additionally, you can also try to reach the "superbonus" which you only get when you touch no opposing vehicle.

The hostile vehicles are divided into cars and trucks. Cars can be pushed into obstacles or turned into scrap by a well-directed jump. Trucks can only be eliminated by a jump due to their higher mass and they can also "unload" obstacles onto the street themselves.

The tracks have the seasons as their topic, whereby the winter scenario also contains icy parts. You get points for landing on another vehicle and for damaging them or pushing them from the track. You can only jump at a speed higher than 100 km/h

Design

The race track and the cars are pictured from the bird's eye view. The race cars correspond roughly to the ones in the arcade model, the landscape is only shown in unicoloured areas. The background music is classic

Hints

You can choose between 1- or 2-player mode (F1/F3) and set the level (F7) in the options screen.
The game can be played in turns by two players with a joystick in port 2. You steer with joystick left and right, up is faster and down is slower. When reaching 100 km/h you can jump by pressing the fire button which is necessary for bridges and gaps in the track.

Enemies: There are eight different opposing vehicles, whereby the most dangerous one is the "Dump Truck". It is faster than your car and unloads obstacles onto the street. "Deathmobiles" are the second most dangerous enemy. They are black with bone cross and skull. They are a bit slower than (but in higher levels at least as fast as) your car and also partially very intelligent. Yellow and green enemies are slower and easily pushed from the track. Tanks are very slow and actually not dangerous, but due to their weight they almost cannot be pushed from the track and so pose an obstacle.

There are 32 levels.

Solution

Tips:

With the superbonus the actual task of the player is at first to avoid touching other cars (especially in the first level), as this is good for the points account and you already get an additional car at 70.000 points.


http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/Burnin_Rubber
